“The moral of the story is simple: Test code is just as important as production code. It is not a second-class citizen. It requires thought, design, and care. It must be kept as clean as production code.”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
“To summarize, a great business will show the following characteristics in its financial statements: Earnings show a smooth upward trend Consistent return on equity (ROE) greater than 20% Consistent return on total capital (ROTC) greater than 15% Long-term debt less than 4 times earnings”
― Invest Like Warren Buffett: Powerful Strategies for Building Wealth
― Invest Like Warren Buffett: Powerful Strategies for Building Wealth
“It is difficult beyond description to pursue a complex policy in a contentious part of the world when the policy is subject to instant modification based on the boss’s perception of how inaccurate and often-already-outdated information is reported by writers who don’t have the Administration’s best interests at heart in the first place. It was like making and executing policy inside a pinball machine, not the West Wing of the White House.”
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
― The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
“The brutal truth is that architecture is too important to be left exclusively to a few people. It’s fine to have an architect, but the key way to keep an architecture intact is to make sure that everyone on the team knows what it is and has a stake in it.”
― Working Effectively with Legacy Code
― Working Effectively with Legacy Code
“Code at the boundaries needs clear separation and tests that define expectations. We should avoid letting too much of our code know about the third-party particulars. It’s better to depend on something you control than on something you don’t control, lest it end up controlling you.”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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